Business Advice for Start-Ups & Growing Small Businesses
Practical thinking drawn from thirty years of real business experience, for people starting or growing a business in the UK.
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Explore all the workbooks - Business is hard enough without having to guess your way through it
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There is no shortage of business advice out there. Podcasts. Videos. Articles. Posts telling you to be more confident, work harder, think bigger or just keep going.
Sometimes that's useful. But when you're actually running a business, the questions tend to be much more ordinary.
- Is this idea actually viable?
- Am I charging enough?
- Why does the business seem busy but never have much cash?
- Where are my customers supposed to come from?
- What do I need to sort out before I start?
- Is this business still working for me — or have I just got used to it?
Those questions need more than encouragement. They need sitting down, looking at what is actually happening and making a decision.That's what these workbooks are for.
Each Proper Business Guide workbook takes one real business problem and helps you work through it.
You'll write things down. Put numbers against things. Make choices. Spot gaps. Decide what needs doing next.
And you'll finish with something useful: a clearer idea, a set of figures, a process, a plan or a decision you can actually act on.
The material comes from 30 years of running businesses across manufacturing, retail and hospitality. Some worked very well. Some didn't, the difficult ones often taught me far more.
A lot of what is in these workbooks exist because at some point I needed the answer myself.
You don't need to start in any order
Begin with the question that's bothering you now. You can buy you one or two and start there or take advantage of the bundle deal for all six
- The Business Idea Clarity Workbook
- The First 90 Days Workbook
- The Sales & Customer Conversion Workbook
- The Understanding Your Business Numbers Workbook
- The Export Workbook
- The Honest Review Workbook
- The Founders Library. All six
The workbooks aren't designed to be skimmed. They're designed to be used.
Print the workbook and answer the questions properly.
Because reading another article about knowing your customer is easy.
Writing down exactly who your customer is, why they buy, what stops them buying and how you're going to reach them is different.
That's where things become useful.
The blank spaces are intentional.
They make you decide, blank space in the workbook that needs an actual figure, an actual name, an actual date.
All workbooks are instant PDF downloads. Available to UK customers.